STEELCENTRAL CONTROLLER FOR STEELHEAD

Simplify and manage your SteelHead optimization deployments

Improve Application Performance in the Hybrid Enterprise

SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead enables you to easily leverage and control hybrid WANs for accelerated delivery, based on your business requirements, of critical applications over faster, more secure networks and less-critical recreational applications over the public Internet. The solution simplifies application performance and path management and ensures secure service-level delivery for business critical applications.

SteelCentral Controller for SteelHead also provides performance monitoring with reporting metrics such as traffic levels, application throughput performance and TCP session flow characteristics – to help diagnose and fix problems.

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Improve Application Performance in the Hybrid Enterprise

SteelCentral Controller uses a wizard-like process for defining application policies based on customer business requirements. It helps you prioritize, secure and deliver applications over any network (MPLS and Internet) based on intent-based, global business policies.

What Can You Save? What Can You Gain?

IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead.

IDC calculates that organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.

Senko Co., Ltd. (Senko) is a logistics company with approximately 400 domestic and 33 overseas locations. Senko provides a variety of services including building efficient logistics systems for supply chain management, outsourcing logistics to save costs, and building logistics systems that accommodate recycling-oriented societies and globalization. It always strives to be the best partner for its customers.

The control screen for the mobile controller is user friendly. We can see the benefits SteelHead Mobile at the individual client PC level and also view asset information. We can predict network issues ahead of time, so we are now able to take preventative measures.Shigeyuki Tanaka, Manager of the Production Management Department, Senko

Riverbed helps global manufacturing company scale its business and take central control

Roxtec manufactures cable and pipe sealing solutions for industries including marine and offshore, telecom, energy and construction. The company is headquartered in Sweden and has 23 subsidiaries around the world.

Whenever we open up a new subsidiary, we can deploy the Riverbed solution fast and efficiently. It’s a very successful strategy.Johan Jartelius, CIO, Roxtec

Online travel reservation system provides world-class service as a result of improved performance monitoring and diagnostics

RSM Australia is a full-service national accounting firm with more than 90 years local experience delivering expert corporate financial and advisory accounting services to clients across diverse industry sectors. The company has 29 offices in Australia and a global network of 760 offices across 120 countries.

Not only have we been able to maintain the same performance, but we have lowered our operational costs because we’re seeing a 2x reduction in traffic—we’re sitting at 58 per cent of traffic compared to what it would have been without SteelHeadSam Mannix, Business Engagement and Architecture Manager, RSM

VTB Bank has increased the performance of applications and employees with the help of Riverbed Steelhead

VTB Bank is a Russian commercial bank with state participation, a key element under VTB Group. It is the second largest bank in Russia in terms of assets and the first in terms of share capital size. The main activities of the bank include working with corporate clients and financial institutions, government agencies and enterprises.

With the help of the Riverbed solutions we managed to decrease the volume of data transferred in all branches and data centers by 62%, thus freeing the bandwidth for the critical business and multimedia applicationsDmitry Nazipov, Head of Information Technology Department — Senior Vice President, VTB Bank

Mott MacDonald is a £1.3BN global management, engineering and development consultancy. It is one of the world’s largest employee-owned companies, with 17,000 employees and over 180 offices delivering sustainable outcomes for clients in 150 countries worldwide. It works on projects in the transportation, buildings, power, oil and gas, water and wastewater, environment, education, health, international development and digital infrastructure sectors.

In some locations, performance was even better, for example, between the UK and Hong Kong, transfer speeds were 10x faster. When it came to optimizing and improving AutoCAD performance, none of the competitors came close to matching Riverbed.Bradley Tullett, Head of Infrastructure, Mott MacDonald